How tests are not the way to measure a student's understanding
Students are not put in schools and the education systems to take tests, but to learn. When students of all ages complain of tests they are required to take to pass a grade level; they aren't wrong. What students are being tested on today is knowledge which instead they should be taught on skill. Having students complete tests on knowledge instead of skill is hindering our student's ability to want to thrive in school. Take this into account, when students of the future are put into the workplace to complete a task, which will help them more, knowledge or skill? How students are being tested in schools today are about their knowledge when instead skill is what brings the real understanding of what a student is aware and capable of it. Knowledge does not stick around for long, especially when in school students are usually taught six subjects and fifteen or more units per a subject. Skill can s...